CELIA (Tsipa) SCHNEIDERMAN MALKIN

1878/1882 – Mar. 4, 1944

Family Stories

Celia married Max in 1905 and came over from Belarus to NYC with Max in 1906. See Max’s page for the ship manifest. She made the trip while pregnant with Ann. Her father was Aaron David Schneiderman. He had blonde hair and blue eyes. Her mother was Machle (Miriam). She had black hair and brown eyes. Celia had two sisters (Sura and Cifra) and two brothers.

Through the Jewish Gen website, I met a distant cousin who is also a descendant of Schneiderman’s of Chashniki. He is Professor Arnold Horelik , an internationally known scholar of Russian Studies.

When I told my mother of my correspondence with Prof. Horelick she could not believe it. It was Arnold, her favorite cousin from 50 years ago!!!

Since then, Arnold and the family have gotten together and picked up where they left off years ago.

Max and Celia

Celia’s death certificate

Celia’s gravestone

I checked the NJ Naturalization Records (1749-1986) and Celia never applied for citizenship

So based on the above family information, I searched the Belarus archives on JewishGen, and I found this family in the July 8, 1894 census

Family stories mostly confirmed!!

Except Celia was telling us she was 3-4 years younger than she actually was. Haha.

Above is a civil record from an extensive local census in 1894

Jewish birth/marriage/death records were held with local synagogues and will require more digging to find

Ancient family document (from the 1970s!)

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